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Manita Chouksy is a new member of the CLIVAR panel. Photo: private
Manita Chouksy is a new member of the CLIVAR panel. Photo: private
Feb 8, 2023

MARUM scientist was selected to be a member of the CLIVAR Ocean Model Development Panel

MARUM scientist Dr. Manita Chouksey, Project leader in the Transregional Collaborative Research Center 181 (TRR 181), is since January 2023 a member of the ...

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Altered ocean circulation in the Indian Ocean could lead to more and stronger flood events in the eastern part of the Indian Ocean and drought and dry periods in the western part of the Indian Ocean. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences
Altered ocean circulation in the Indian Ocean could lead to more and stronger flood events in the eastern part of the Indian Ocean and drought and dry periods in the western part of the Indian Ocean. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; M. Mohtadi
Jan 5, 2023

Changing ocean circulation intensifies extreme events in the Indian Ocean

Dry regions experience more drought events, wet regions more precipitation: In a new study, researchers from the U.S., Germany and China have investigated ...

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Foraminifera under the microscope, taken during an expedition with the research vessel SONNE. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
Foraminifera under the microscope, taken during an expedition with the research vessel SONNE. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
Dec 22, 2022

Colonization of microorganisms from the ocean floor into the water column

Planktonic foraminifera are key to understanding and deciphering past climate. They live and lived in the water column, but their origins are unclear. In a ...

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Aug 25, 2021
An octopus approaches a coral grown on basalt fragments in a water depth of 900 meters, recorded with the remotely operated vehicle MARUM-QUEST. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
An octopus approaches a coral grown on basalt fragments in a water depth of 900 meters, recorded with the remotely operated vehicle MARUM-QUEST. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

Research Mission Investigates the Ocean as a Carbon Store

How can the ocean help to effectively contain climate change? This question forms the core of the first research mission of the German Marine Resea...

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Aug 6, 2021
The new brochure provides facts and background information on surveying the Atlantic circulation. Photo: KDM/DKK
The new brochure provides facts and background information on surveying the Atlantic circulation. Photo: KDM/DKK

Measuring the Atlantic circulation

The German Marine Research Consortium (KDM) and the German Climate Consortium (DKK) have now published a background brochure on the measurement of ...

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May 31, 2021
The samples studied come from a core recovered by researchers in Morocco's Lake Tislit. Photo: Rachid Cheddadi, University of Montpellier
The samples studied come from a core recovered by researchers in Morocco's Lake Tislit. Photo: Rachid Cheddadi, University of Montpellier

Using fossil plant molecules to track down the Green Sahara

Researchers have developed a new concept to explain the phenomenon known as Green Sahara. To achieve this, they first studied the fossil pollen and...

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Apr 13, 2021
The basis for GLOMAP is data obtained from deep-sea sediment cores. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp
The basis for GLOMAP is data obtained from deep-sea sediment cores. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

New world map of sea-surface temperature and sea-ice extent during the Last Glacial Maximum

Researchers use maps to visualize their data. Using paleodata from the international MARGO project ("Multiproxy Approach for the Reconstruction of ...

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Feb 17, 2021
Icebreaker Oden on the Arctic Ocean. Credits: Lars Lehnert, SPRS
Icebreaker Oden on the Arctic Ocean. Credits: Lars Lehnert, SPRS

ArcOP – A novel scientific ocean drilling expedition to explore Arctic Ocean paleoceanography and climate

The European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD), the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat (SPRS) and Arctic Marine Solutions (AMS) will j...

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Jul 11, 2011

En route with MINIBEX

For four days Dierk Hebbeln and André Freiwald were on expedition with the research vessel MINIBEX, which is equipped with a submarine and a ROV. They ... +

Jul 7, 2011

Pushing forward to Hell

This is the title of a piece published by the Hamburg based magazine ZEIT Wissen. The magazine reports about the work of Dr. Michael Strasser in the ... +

Jul 6, 2011

New Exhibition on Marine Research

On July 11 a new exhibition on marine research will be opened in the Ozeaneum, a museum located in Stralsund on the Baltic coast. Topical and future ... +

Jul 5, 2011

10th Anniversary for CHEROKEE

As the first German deep going diving robot MARUM-CHEROKEE was put into operation for the marine research ten years ago. Since then it was operated in the ... +

Jun 27, 2011

On expedition with RV SONNE

Until July, 23rd, MARUM scientists are on expedition with the research vessel SONNE off the coast of Papua New Guinea. With the diving robot MARUM-QUEST ... +

Jun 23, 2011

Meeting on Organic Geochemistry

On June 30th about 90 scientists will hold their „North German Meeting on Organic Geochemistry“ in the MARUM building. Graduates and PhD students will ... +

Jun 22, 2011

QUEST video material on the Azores

Underwater videos taken with the diving vehicle MARUM-QUEST are now on display in the Museum of Volcanology on the Azores. The videos were taken 2010 ... +

Jun 13, 2011

IODP Science Plan

The new Science Plan of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) will be presented at a press conference in Amsterdam on Thursday, 16 June 2011. The ... +

Jun 8, 2011

School meets Science

The MARUM UniSchoollab under the direction of Dr. Martina Pätzold is nominated for the “School meets Science” award from the Robert Bosch Stiftung. The ... +

Jun 8, 2011

HERMIONE image competition 2011

Dr. Claudia Wienberg won at the HERMIONE image competition the highest award in the category “underwater images”. The winner photo was taken by the ROV ... +

Jun 7, 2011

MARUM in the EU project „EuroMarin...

MARUM is one of the partners of the international project „EuroMarine“. In this project funded by the European Commission all in all 120 institutes and ... +

Jun 7, 2011

BIOMARIS research award

MARUM scientist Dr. Ursula Röhl is awarded with the „BIOMARIS research award for the advancement of marine sciences in Bremen 2011” about 5000 Euro. The ... +

May 31, 2011

The Painter and the Sea

Radio Bremen TV recently presented a report about a MARUM expedition which was accompanied by Andreas Schön. At the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study ... +

May 26, 2011

Stadtmusikantenpreis for Gerold Wefer

Prof. Gerold Wefer is one of this year’s awardees of the “Stadtmusikantenpreis”. With this award people are honored, who enhanced the image of Bremen ... +

May 22, 2011

Honorary doctorate for Wolfgang Berger

On May, 24th, the University of Bremen will award Prof. Wolfgang Berger the honorary doctorate. The international renowned scientist in ocean and climate ... +